Today's bento was inspired by Chinese paper cutting and the pattern was copied from one of the Chinese paper cut for year of the Rabbit. Instead of red paper, I used red egg sheet and my X-acto knife to cut the pattern. I couldn't use the same spot as usual to take the picture and this picture was taken in the kitchen, and it came out a little bit dark and I lost the details on the rabbit's body *sigh*. Inside the box : tiny oranges, char siu pork, and stir fry veggies (green beans, yellow beans, carrots).

Today, I feel a lot of better from my cough. Try to eat healthy, drink a lot of water and still avoid to use antibiotic to recover. I'm glad that the kids are healthy, hope they will not catch the same bugs as me. The weather has been crazy from the weekend, like one hour was so hot and the next our was rainy ... it changed every hour. This year, I won't host the Chinese New Year celebration at my house. We haven't decided yet where will be the place to celebrate with the whole family. I think will be either at my parents' house or in a restaurant. I baked some pineapple tarts with my mom and my sister last week, and the tarts were almost gone even before the celebration started :) Hope everyone has a great week ahead!

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So so pretty and traditional, I really love it!! Looks like painstaking cutting and work here. So gorgeous Lia.I wish we had 2 or even 1 week off for Chinese new year. So glad to hear your cough is getting better and you're feeling better. Yay!

wow...great work and sooo pretty!!! How long you take to cut this??? So neat and with those tiny tiny details...really impressive, Lia. I wanted to make something like this...but then..heheh...too ungly to show out...hahaha. Love the bunny chocolate painting and thanks for the details instruction..have to try it one day. 恭喜发财，新年快乐！！！